World Bellyboarding Championships 2013
Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 12:28 pm
Last Sunday, 8th September, the World Bellyboarding Championships took place at Chapel Porth beach, a National Trust beach near St. Agnes, in Cornwall. A couple of Travellers were overseeing the beach, along with a Mini Traveller.
The photos are on khou.com photo sharing websites. The turquoise painted Traveller appears every year, and I believe is owned by a Retro surf shop based in Newquay. It has an externally mounted spare wheel.
The photograph appears with the following description:
'People sit besides a trio of British 1960s classic cars as they watch the annual World Belly Boarding Championships at Chapel Porth on September 8 2013 in Cornwall, England. Over a hundred surfers of all ages and all on traditional wooden belly boards, gathered for the annual charity event organised for the National Trust and the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI). The event was started in 2002 as a celebration of how surfing began in Britain more than a century ago and because, since the 1920s, Cornwall has become the focus for surfing in the UK. Originally surfers used the wooden 'belly boards' on which they laid down and it was only later that they started standing up, with Cornwall having the first visual evidence of that, in 1929.'
Did any MMOC members take part?[frame]
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The photos are on khou.com photo sharing websites. The turquoise painted Traveller appears every year, and I believe is owned by a Retro surf shop based in Newquay. It has an externally mounted spare wheel.
The photograph appears with the following description:
'People sit besides a trio of British 1960s classic cars as they watch the annual World Belly Boarding Championships at Chapel Porth on September 8 2013 in Cornwall, England. Over a hundred surfers of all ages and all on traditional wooden belly boards, gathered for the annual charity event organised for the National Trust and the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI). The event was started in 2002 as a celebration of how surfing began in Britain more than a century ago and because, since the 1920s, Cornwall has become the focus for surfing in the UK. Originally surfers used the wooden 'belly boards' on which they laid down and it was only later that they started standing up, with Cornwall having the first visual evidence of that, in 1929.'
Did any MMOC members take part?[frame]